[Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2016-05-26 06:31, Dennis wrote:
> However, the gdb that comes with it is not as good.

That’s the understatement of the year. Yes GDB might be great for its
primary language it was designed for C and C++, but it sure sucks for
Object Pascal. So much so that I’m seriously considering moving all my
work to another language where debugging is magnitudes better than what
we experience now.

I also welcome anybody to try and contribute to the multiple efforts of
implementing a native Object Pascal debugger.

  fpDebug:
    My own fork of Duby.
    https://github.com/graemeg/fpdebug

  Duby:
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/duby/

  fpDebug - same name, but totally different code
    Located in the “debugger” directory of Lazarus.
    http://lazarus-dev.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/de-bug-wars-new-hope.html

In the mean time, here is a collection of tips of GDB usage with Lazarus.
  http://wiki.freepascal.org/GDB_Debugger_Tips

Regards,
  Graeme

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